CAUSING what is rightly described as a "first-class political sensation" in South Africa, the leader of the Nationalist party (General Hertzog) has resigned. ...
Article : 790 wordsSir,—All citizens of Melbourne should welcome Cr. Connelly's 30-year scheme of civic development. The elimination of the several bottle-necks mentioned ...
Article : 357 wordsDiscussions by the Advisory War Council of the draft wartime Budget, which began yesterday, and which will be continued to-day, are ...
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Article : 264 wordsBritain's "fat friends," variously known also as "floating elephants" or "old floppies," or just plain barrage balloons, have won a pat on their broad backs from ...
Article : 631 wordsAssuming that restriction of consumption under the war economy was inevitable, to increase the basic wage would be to invite people ...
Article : 532 wordsResenting the presence of police short-hand writers at a meeting of members of the Building Trades Federation at Victoria Barracks, St. Kilda rd., yesterday, ...
Article : 355 wordsEvents in the metal trades industry had made it imperative that there be no further delay in announcing his decision to the 30,000 employees of the non ...
Article : 326 wordsRepresentatives of parties in the Sydney engineers' strike, who had been summoned to a compulsory conference by Judge O'Mara, had preliminary talks at the ...
Article : 69 wordsSir,—I remember reading in England many years ago that when Blucher (so we spell and pronounce the name) came to London after Waterloo he, riding in ...
Article : 75 wordsSix generations born on Australian so[?]l! Can any family surpass this remarkable record of the line of Peter McCann, founder of the large-scale cement industry ...
Article : 300 wordsSYDNEY, Thursday. — Important war work will be held up at Port Kembla to-morrow, when employees at the works of Metal ...
Article : 152 wordsSir,—May I draw the attention of V.R.C. officials to the custom of reserved seats on the stands at Flemington being in possession of small parties ...
Article : 97 wordsSir,—Two of your correspondents chide at civilians becoming lieutenants in 25 minutes. Apart from the fact that the term "lieutenant in 25 minutes" was ...
Article : 194 wordsThe invalid father of a 19-year-old youth, who was fatally injured on June 9 by a car driven by Harold Lindsay Badger, of Miriam st., Caulfield, jockey, ...
Article : 208 wordsOfficials of the British Bombing Victims' Fund have asked that all outstanding amounts held in other lists should be sent to the Town Hall at once, so ...
Article : 268 wordsFilling of two further writs in the Supreme Court yesterday by graziers whose properties were damaged in the March bush fires brought the total claims ...
Article : 88 wordsADELAIDE, Thursday.—Spokesmen for [?]OO foundry workers in South Australian factories to-day handed to Metal Industries Employers' Association a demand ...
Article : 155 wordsSir,—My father and mother came to this country from Enn[?]scorthy, Wexford, in the south of Eire. I can realise how these beloved parents would hang their ...
Article : 75 wordsBALLARAT, Thursday.—Broadway Park results:— Burnbank Stakes — First Division — Snowy Bun[?] (4/1), 1: Valona (8/1), 2: Tawonga Park (4/1), 3, (Being First. 2/1 fav.). Second Division—Cindete[?] ...
Article : 189 wordsThere is a possibility that the Federal Government will increase its offer of a stabilised wheat price of 3/6 a bushel f.o.r. ports. ...
Article : 93 wordsPictures of the officers of the 26th Infantry Brigade Headquarters staff will appear to-morrow in "The Argus" week-end magazine. The name and rank of ...
Article : 35 wordsProblems of providing adequate sleeping accommodation for members of the A.I.F. on week-end leave in Melbourne will be investigated by Mr. Spender, ...
Article : 47 wordsSir,—Mary D. Stephen asks (2/11/40) why the Red Cross Refugee Clothing Depot appealed last week for helpers to mend clothing for air-raid victims in ...
Article : 157 wordsELDER, SMITH, AND CO. LTD., Geelong, with which is merged the business of Geo, Hague and Co. Pty. Ltd., report (Nov. 7):—The 22nd [?] of appraisements were held in Geelong this week, ...
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Article : 50 wordsSir,—The growing conviction among thinking persons everywhere to-day—that a new world order is vitally necessary— is a remarkable sign of the times. It ...
Article : 106 wordsIssued by the Southern Command head-quarters yesterday, an army casualty list for Australia and oversea contains the names of two Victorians who have died ...
Article : 130 wordsAUCKLAND, Thursday. — Mr. Nash, Minister for Finance, announced to-day that the compulsory war loan of £8,000,000 had been over-subscribed. ...
Article : 24 wordsSir,—We have read thousands of words about a new world order from politicians, Labour leaders, social reformers, economists, and sundry others. Some ...
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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Fri 8 Nov 1940, Page 5
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